Joseph Brodsky Quotes
Neither as a writer nor, moreover, as a leader of a nation should you use terminology that obscures the reality of human evil.
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should wait and create my own projects... do independent movies before I would have to go and do reality shows. Or produce one and come up with one on my own!
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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Noble mission to free the Iraqi people from an evil tyrant.
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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
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Neither as a writer nor, moreover, as a leader of a nation should you use terminology that obscures the reality of human evil.
